No sure if the relative popularity of my “faking it” series (yes, two posts is now officially a series) is a good thing or a bad thing:
Clearly the masses are in need of faking advice…
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Perverse Egalitarianism
an otherwise excellent blog
what’s lovely about it is that it’s genuinely funny, while most philosophy blogs are either hyperserious, narcissistic/wankitudinous, or both.
I hope some of the hyperserious ones got really offended…
I hope that’s me.
Not really, I meant object-oriented idiots and their ilk…
WE would all rather put in the small amount of time necessary to fake it, rather than the enormous amount of time necessary to really learn something, so you are doing the world a great service. I think…Anyway, at the very least, you provided food for thought for many. Thanks.
You’re welcome…
It’s not that we need advice; we need entertainment. These are dark times (eg, these are 100 undergraduate intro essays…)
But the entertaining advice is so much better!
for me funny is Kant’s definition of laughter: the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing. precise, but yet so away from its subject matter.
Besides the Monty Python skit where philosophers are playing soccer, I never thought I would laugh SO HARD at philosophy jokes. It’s no wonder those posts are your most read!